Bad Averts

Competitive Edge #13

by Peter L. de Rosa



TSP has a "Worst in Game Advertising" section. Remember the Hatfield-McCoy cover for Issue 13 of Competitive Edge magazine [Published by One Small Step]? Here's what TSP said:

(9) COMPETITIVE EDGE No. 13 (HONORABLE MENTION; 1998) Comments: This is not a computer game, but rather a paper wargaming magazine with an enclosed game. The cover says it all -- the picture portrays a prepubescent girt clad in a pair of farmer's jeans with over-the-shoulder straps. She is bare from the waist up, although only her back is visible. Why is this part of a gaming magazine? -- because the included game is HATFIELDS VS. McCOYS.

To top it off, the upper right notes that COMPETITIVE EDGE is "THE ADULT GAMING MAGAZINE". Perhaps they are trying to appeal to a new market -- pederasts. As a special bonus, an additional game is included -- WRESTLING. Here, we have a wargaming magazine with two of the three R's: Rednecks and Rasslin'; only Rubber is missing. Perhaps the next issue will be NASCAR or DIRT TRACK. Incidentally, the Hatfields and the McCoys have made up. They're having ajoint picnic-softball game this weekend. It's on their web page.

(The Editor adds: in fairness, the girl pictured on the cover was of legal age, though it doesn't look it. She was also the subject of a "Strip the Librarian" drive advertised/linked for a while on the One Small Step games website - she needed money, so the more you sent, the more of her clothes she took off, and pictures of her progressive disrobing would be posted. Reportedly the drive failed from lack of interest - too much free nudity out there already, I guess.)


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